A proud and visionary farmer, James Mann owns and manages a 5,000 acre farm in Saskatchewan and is passionate about ensuring commercial family farms remain profitable now and for generations to come.

James Mann was raised and worked a family farm near Hodgeville in Southwestern Saskatchewan. He has operated the farm for over 35 years and talks about the importance of agriculture. While learning the skills of modern agriculture as an inherent part of managing a successful farm, James also chose to obtain his Bachelor of Science (Animal Science) at the University of Saskatchewan.

Innovation was standard fare on the farm, from inventing unique farm equipment to address specific needs to creating new strategies to manage the farms cost structure and financial needs.

Dissatisfaction with the low rates of return to land, labour, capital and management drove James to create solutions that transformed the fragmented and often conflicting interests of farmers with weak market influence into a business alliance tightly focused on maximizing farm profitability and growing farmer market power.

James launched this business strategy in earnest with the launch of Farmers of North America in 1998. His achievements since then include creating entirely new businesses independently and in partnerships such as Argracity Crops and Nutrition, Agserve Ltd. and most recently FNA Farmers Fertilizer Limited Partnership. He has a proven record in dealing with hundreds of suppliers across the world and is one of the true experts in understanding the agriculture supply chain from farm field to consumer plate.

James has been a regular witness before Parliamentary Committees, providing his expertise to public policy makers and has been instrumental in driving change in Canada’s regulatory system, notably in reforming the farm chemical regulatory regime. He has worked with government officials in multiple countries and has strong relationships with top tier farm organizations in North America.

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“If you want something to happen, you’ve got to put it down in writing and you know, you’ve got to look to where it is that you want to go.”

“Well you know what, and this is something else I tell my kids – you’ve got to get out there and do things and make mistakes and those mistakes take you to the next level.’”

“Today’s individuals – they don’t want to be a cog on the wheel, they want to be participatory.”

“You have to know the key things that decisions turn on and you can be looking at 120 things but really at the end of the day there’s only three that count. Those three are the ones that you really need to know. So you can report yourself to death, but having the right reports at the right time is essential.”

“You have to know as much as you can about the business that you want to get into; the fundamentals that drive that business and if you have an interest in that business, that’s where you want to go.”

“When you’re looking at your life and your business – you gotta think big, you’ve got to believe in yourself and you gotta find that truth inside of you.”